4th Grade Moon Quiz

What moon phase is seen from Earth when the moon is nearest the sun?

• Full Moon 
• New Moon 
• First Quarter
• Last Quarter

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Changes in the moon's appearance are

• phases
• eclipses
• stages
• cycle

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What causes the moon's phases

• Where you are standing on Earth

• the amount of sunlight reflected onto the moon from the sun

• The tilt of Earth

• how fast the moon is moving

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Define Waxing

• Moon is increasing and light part appears to be growing
• Completely illuminated
• dark side is facing earth
• Moon is decreasing and light part appears to be shrinking

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As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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Which moon phase is when you can't see the moon at all?

• Waning crescent
• Full moon
• Waxing gibbous
• New moon

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Name the moon phase

• waning crescent
• waxing crescent
• waning gibbous
• waxing gibbous

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Name the moon phase

• waning crescent
• waxing crescent
• waning gibbous
• waxing gibbous

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Name the moon phase

• waning crescent
• waxing crescent
• waning gibbous
• waxing gibbous

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Name the moon phase

• First Quarter

• Third Quarter

• New Moon

• Full Moon

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